Таманг

2011. - 11 p. Tamang (Devnagari: तामाङ; tāmāng) is a term used to collectively refer to a dialect cluster spoken mainly in Nepal and parts of Sikkim. It comprises Eastern Tamang, Northwestern Tamang, Southwestern Tamang, Eastern Gorkha Tamang, and Western Tamang. Lexical similarity between Eastern Tamang (which is regarded as the most prominent) and other Tamang languages...

Südasien-Chronik - South Asia-Chronicle, 2011. - 46 p. (393-437) In the Nepalese Constituent Assembly elections of 2008 among the 74 registered parties, the Tamsaling Nepal Rastriya Dal (Tamsaling Nepal National Party, TRD) promoted the concept of transforming Nepal into a federal state based on ethnic groups’1 ancestral homelands. The claim for ethnic groups’...

Publisher/Date: N/A Pages: 15 The word ‘Tamang’ belongs to an ethnic indigenous people group of Nepal. Literally it has two meanings ‘Ta’-Horse and ‘Mang’- Worriers/Combatants. That means they were the horse riding worriers. According to the history, our ancestors were the worriers from Tibbet. They came to this land and made their habitats. Large numbers of Tamang people live...

Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, 2011. - 193 p. Tamang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by over a million people in central Nepal. The two major varieties of Tamang are Eastern Tamang with approximately 759,000 speakers and Western Tamang with approximately 323,000 speakers (2000 census) which are mutually unintelligible languages. Eastern Tamang is divided into two...

Lacito, CNRS, 2006. — 12 p. Although the general classification of Tibeto-Burman languages remains uncertain, the Tamang language of Nepal belongs clearly in the broad group which Robert Shafer (Shafer 1955) called the "Bodish Section" of the "Bodic division" of Tibeto-Burman, of which Tibetan is the best known member. The Bodish section consists of two main branches, the...

2004. - 14 p. I have been asked to give some advice on the development of a writing system for Tamang and tools to use in the classroom in order to teach reading and writing in Tamang. Further development of the use of Tamang (or for that matter other minority languages of Nepal) in education at a higher level will be outside the scope of my remarks. Some valuable attempts...

Publisher/Date: N/A Pages: 14 Dhankute Tamang is a dialect of Tamang that belongs to the group of non-pronominalising languages of Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. This dialect is spoken in Dhankuta district of Nepal. This paper deals with Dhankute Tamang adverbs focusing on the forms and functions. It is divided into 3 major parts. First part deals...